CrudeVileTerror

In-game to @VileTerror, although Inf has never really been the missing ingredient. Volunteers and bases have. All the same, thank you for your interest in helping! Even if you can't volunteer or throw a base in to the mix (whether it's a haunted house or a warehouse), the best thing at this point is to spread Word of Mouth. Get your friends and groups interested and potentially involved. A Hallowe'en Trick or Treating event without any Trick or Treaters will just be a bunch of volunteers sitting in bases on stockpiled ATOs, Salvage, and Inf. Thanks, folks!

Given points like that one, @Apparition, I continue to wonder if Statesman wasn't removed due to some intellectual property kerfluffle thing. But then, as said by others, there is no shortage of people who absolutely despise the character (for all sorts of reasons). So, it really might just be as simple as the author of the changes being that gung-ho about it.

Another possible idea is that Mag over (let's saaaaay) twice the Threshold for application gets converted to either raw damage or some -Res Debuff. ie: Hit a Lt. with Mag 50 Hold, and the Lt. takes 30% HP damage instead. (Numbers not backed by any kind of math, just random for the sake of expressing the idea.)

*glances back and forth* 14 times, you say . . . *tries to think of when that was and why* Little jokes aside, thank you for taking the extra time to provide the helpful information, @Faultline. I do think a 3 Minute cooldown (10 minutes divided by 3 uses per) sounds like a pretty reasonable Cooldown. I also like hearing that you're looking at a way to reduce some of this redundancy of Powers. Of course, the flipside of that is to member the True Meaning of City of Heroes: Choice! Kind of a precarious position to be in, of course, so sympathies all around to the Dev Team in trying to untangle this particular situation in a meaningful and beneficial way. I imagine it's too soon to provide E.T.A.s for the next Build that'll hit Public Beta, so I shall do what I can to encourage folks to have some additional patience at this time.

What would be a huge help, actually, is if someone (or a small team of someones) could go around and make some rudimentary bases for me on some of the various Shards. Just really quick and dirty things like this: I'd need one for the ATOs and one for the Salvage, with all 18 Storage Items dedicated to each of those categories. As a bonus, a base dedicated to Inspirations too. Per Shard. I've already got the Reunion ATO Warehouse done (and the Reunion Inspiration Warehouse, silly me did that first before I realized that Inspirations will be too much of a pain in the rump to do in this event). Everlasting is my home Shard, so I've got plenty of storage here already, but I wouldn't mind if someone made Warehouses here too. Don't forget to change the Permissions on each Storage Rack! When I get home tonight after plunging my blades in to some orange and white flesh and scooping out guts (I'll share the photos, don't worry!), then hopefully I can meet up with whoever made these bases and exchange leadership. If a team of people end up working on these, please share leadership with one another as well, just so we can have some redundancy in place, just in case. PLEASE be sure to communicate with one another in this thread, so people don't accidentally end up doing multiple bases on the same Shards. I'll start filling the bases up with goodies as soon as I can! Then I'll invite the volunteers to the bases, so they can start harvesting the goodies for distribution. Thanks, everyone!

For the record: I haven't forgotten about this. I know I've received several private messages which I have not adequately replied to. Real life has become very complicated this week. I will do my level best to get everything in place tonight / during the day tomorrow (hey! First day scheduled off work since -March-! "yay"). I have received word that the goodies have been purchased, but collecting and disseminating them has been complicated due to in-game bugs related to claiming Character Item emails. Deepest apologies to everyone. I'm sorry, and will try harder tonight.

Aye. Ouroboros Portal is definitely the oddest one out for categorization. Or maybe the Prestige Travel category. Or maybe https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/23406-sub-categorize-temporary-powers/

The point is that the live-release version of the game doesn't have the cheats enabled. The idea is to provide a comparison server with the live version AND cheats, to compare against the beta version with cheats. Create identical conditions for precise rigour in testing scenarios.

More Smudge:

And here we finally have photographic proof of the existence of the cryptid known as: The Modern Blackberry Phone.

Oh baby! Oh @Piecemeal! Yes! YESSS!!! THAT is what I like to see! Mmm! Thanks so much!

So. I was doing a pick-up for work today, and drove to a local food wholesale warehouse that rents their space in an old train station that was bought by a major union and converted in to a convention centre. https://www.google.ca/maps/place/Liuna+Station/@43.2655146,-79.8640018,213m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m5!3m4!1s0x0:0x28642608e133e837!8m2!3d43.265706!4d-79.864329 As I came around the corner, I saw this: Apparently they're filming a little something something there tomorrow. When I sent a photo of this to my spouse, the reply I received was what I posted as this thread's title.

I like the sound of this, but I wonder what kind of overhead the Devs might have to suffer to make and keep a whole 'nother cluster of servers (virtual or otherwise). It might just be one too many things that could break. But, yeah. Being able to provide side-by-side comparisons between different versions of a beta patch or live release could be incredibly helpful. Maybe some day the Devs will release the code for us to run it on virtual machines of our own for these comparisons.

My most ambitious plans involve non-combat content. I'm glad to see there's interest in that sort of content. Now I just need a full-time wage to actually find the time to do any of it. Of course, there are all the Homecoming Devs in line ahead of me in -that- regard.

And I'll have my Experience Gain shut off, and won't be levelling up at all! Because fun is subjective. *mimics two arms with hands using tentacles, then extends a nub on each branch to simulate "two thumbs up"*

Welcome to Everlasting, @hyena69. I hope your gameplay and roleplay experiences on this Shard will be to your liking! If I can be of any help, my main account is @VileTerror

I'm also of the opinion that given how most of the content in this game is written, we need to be flexible with our interpretations of the lore in missions when roleplaying with others. Best case scenario: The mission content is ambiguous enough to suggest that it could be repeated infinitely without meaningfully harming any one roleplayer's character story. Worst case scenario: The events of the mission are taking place in a pocket dimension unique to that character, and other player-characters are along for the ride. And at the end of the day, I figure the best course is to just not spoil anyone else's fun (caveat: So long as their "fun" isn't harassing other people).

I -believe- that it was Issue 15 ( https://archive.paragonwiki.com/wiki/Issue_15 ) when they added the "anime-inspired" faces. That was as close as the Legacy Devs originally seemed to want to get to anime, at first. And then the mecha costume pieces were added some time later (probably after 2010). No idea what the current Devs' plans may be in this regard, but I imagine there would be quite the split vote among some players.

The way that story arc ends, you report back to Operative Kuzmin for a pat on the back. https://hcwiki.cityofheroes.dev/wiki/Lt._Harris

NOTE: UltraAlt is asking about the new Contact which is on Beta right now. This is unrelated to the release/live version of Homecoming.

Congratulations, @Pshaw! . . . but what am I seeing here: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/uploads/monthly_2020_10/screenshot_201026-17-08-18.jpg.b26898c894208275eead02e85683bc2e.jpg ?

I don't know about "soon," but it sounds like they're working on balance specifically with the intent to add level 50 content.

Shakespearean Cyborg Ninja Clown Pirate Zombie Geese-/Furniture-Wasps in SPACE!!! . . . I'd watch it. When do tickets go on sale?

OH GEEZ! I forgot to ask . . . What's happening to the Brain Storm Day Job, then? Where is that getting moved to?

They got plans: https://forums.homecomingservers.com/topic/22534-game-balance-the-endgame/